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Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change Open
Effectively addressing climate change requires significant changes in individual and collective human behavior and decision‐making. Yet, in light of the increasing politicization of (climate) science, and the attempts of vested‐interest gr…
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Can citizen science enhance public understanding of science? Open
Over the past 20 years, thousands of citizen science projects engaging millions of participants in collecting and/or processing data have sprung up around the world. Here we review documented outcomes from four categories of citizen scienc…
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Science audiences, misinformation, and fake news Open
Concerns about public misinformation in the United States—ranging from politics to science—are growing. Here, we provide an overview of how and why citizens become (and sometimes remain) misinformed about science. Our discussion focuses sp…
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Getting the Word Out: New Approaches for Disseminating Public Health Science Open
The gap between discovery of public health knowledge and application in practice settings and policy development is due in part to ineffective dissemination. This article describes (1) lessons related to dissemination from related discipli…
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“Citizen Science”? Rethinking Science and Public Participation Open
Since the late twentieth century, “citizen science” has become an increasingly fashionable label for a growing number of participatory research activities. This paper situates the origins and rise of the term “citizen science” and contextu…
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Science communication on YouTube: Factors that affect channel and video popularity Open
YouTube has become one of the largest websites on the Internet. Among its many genres, both professional and amateur science communicators compete for audience attention. This article provides the first overview of science communication on…
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A Clearer Picture: The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Framing Effects Open
Visuals in news media help define, or frame issues, but less is known about how they influence opinions and behavior. The authors use an experiment to present image and text exemplars of frames from war and conflict news in isolation and i…
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Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science Open
Social media data have been extensively used in numerous fields of science, but examples of their use in conservation science are still very limited. In this paper, we propose a framework on how social media data could be useful for conser…
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The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers Open
Uncertainty is inherent to our knowledge about the state of the world yet often not communicated alongside scientific facts and numbers. In the “posttruth” era where facts are increasingly contested, a common assumption is that communicati…
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Model uncertainty, political contestation, and public trust in science: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic Open
Communications engaging uncertainty in COVID-19 research affect public trust in science and support for science-based policy.
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The social media life of climate change: Platforms, publics, and future imaginaries Open
Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the “six degrees of separation” which have previously characterized many social networks, and breaking down many of the barriers to individuals communicating with each other. …
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How Are Scientists Using Social Media in the Workplace? Open
Social media has created networked communication channels that facilitate interactions and allow information to proliferate within professional academic communities as well as in informal social circumstances. A significant contemporary di…
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Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media Open
Individuals are increasingly relying on social media as their primary source of scientific information. Science education needs to adapt. Nature of science (NOS) education is already widely accepted as essential to scientific literacy and …
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Citizen Science for public health Open
Community engagement in public health policy is easier said than done. One reason is that public health policy is produced in a complex process resulting in policies that may appear not to link up to citizen perspectives. We therefore addr…
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The threefold potential of environmental citizen science - Generating knowledge, creating learning opportunities and enabling civic participation Open
Citizen science offers significant innovation potential in science, society and policy. To foster environmental and conservation goals, citizen science can (i) generate new knowledge, (ii) enhance awareness raising and facilitate in-depth …
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The potential of comics in science communication Open
Visual narratives, such as comics and animations, are becoming increasingly popular as a tool for science education and communication. Combining the benefits of visualization with powerful metaphors and character-driven narratives, comics …
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Fostering public trust in science: The role of social media Open
The growing importance of social media for getting science news has raised questions about whether these online platforms foster or hinder public trust in science. Employing multilevel modeling, this study leverages a 20-country survey to …
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Science and Environmental Communication on YouTube: Strategically Distorted Communications in Online Videos on Climate Change and Climate Engineering Open
The online video-sharing website YouTube is extremely popular globally, also as a tool for information on science and environmental topics. However, only little is known about what kind of information users find when they are searching for…
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Science communication and the issue of trust Open
Science communication, whether internally or to the general public depends on trust, both trust in the source and trust in the medium of communication. With the new 'ecology of communication' this trust is endangered. On the one hand the v…
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An Agenda for Open Science in Communication Open
In the last 10 years, many canonical findings in the social sciences appear unreliable. This so-called “replication crisis” has spurred calls for open science practices, which aim to increase the reproducibility, replicability, and general…
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When Communication Meets Computation: Opportunities, Challenges, and Pitfalls in Computational Communication Science Open
The recent increase in digitally available data, tools, and processing power is fostering the use of computational methods to the study of communication. This special issue discusses the validity of using big data in communication science …
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Citizen science on a smartphone: Participants’ motivations and learning Open
Citizen science provides researchers means to gather or analyse large datasets. At the same time, citizen science projects offer an opportunity for non-scientists to be part of and learn from the scientific process. In the Dutch iSPEX proj…
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Trust in Data Science Open
The trustworthiness of data science systems in applied and real-world settings emerges from the resolution of specific tensions through situated, pragmatic, and ongoing forms of work. Drawing on research in CSCW, critical data studies, and…
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Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus Open
Climate change has been the subject of increasing efforts by scientists to understand its causes and implications; it has been of growing interest to policymakers, international bodies, and a variety of nongovernment organizations; and it …
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Digital Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagment with Health and Science Controversies: Fresh Perspectives from Covid-19 Open
Digital media, while opening a vast array of avenues for lay people to effectively engage with news, information and debates about important science and health issues, have become a fertile land for various stakeholders to spread misinform…
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Science Communication Demands a Critical Approach That Centers Inclusion, Equity, and Intersectionality Open
We live in an era of abundant scientific information, yet access to information and to opportunities for substantive public engagement with the processes and outcomes of science are still inequitably distributed. Even with increasing inter…
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(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world Open
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet examined whether science literacy actually enables this…
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Science Communication in Multiple Languages Is Critical to Its Effectiveness Open
OPINION article Front. Commun., 22 May 2020Sec. Science and Environmental Communication Volume 5 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00031
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Fake science and the knowledge crisis: ignorance can be fatal Open
Computers, the Internet and social media enable every individual to be a publisher, communicating true or false information instantly and globally. In the ‘post-truth’ era, deception is commonplace at all levels of contemporary life. Faker…
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Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy Open
‘Public engagement with science’ has become a ‘buzzword’ reflecting a concern about the widening gap between science and society and efforts to bridge this gap. This study is a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘engagement’ …